Two very nice people turned up completely unannounced to see the New Forest Observatory. As they had come all the way from the States it would have been churlish to say no 🙂 You can read their story here under … Continue reading
Oliver Sacks took a drug cocktail trying to see the colour Indigo. Wish he had talked to me before he passed on as I might have been able to help by putting the appropriate RGB values into Photoshop as in … Continue reading
At this very moment I have the BBC2 Horizon programme about multiverses on. They are taking complete and utter garbage to an entirely new level. The lisping female narrator is really the icing on the cake. Absolutely nothing wrong with … Continue reading
Today’s EPOD is the 3-D microscopy version of the Cabbage White Butterfly Eggs photographed by yours truly and turned into a stunning 3-D image by Dr. Brian May. Brian made a suggestion as to how you could get an apparent … Continue reading
One night before full Moon I managed to grab this with the 2 x 200mm and 2 x M26C OSC CCDs. 12 x 10-minute subs in all. Came out much better than I was expecting so I must go back … Continue reading
In order to keep my hand in the HSF world, I will be making a batch of high-speed flash units that will be available early 2016. Talking to a number of professional users I have decided that the specification for … Continue reading
A very rare beautiful clear Moonless night last night so I put the 2 x Canon 200mm lenses on a favourite star region of mine – Kemble’s Cascade in Camelopardalis. Managed 2-hours worth of 10-minute subs with the array and … Continue reading
Please look under the “Courses” heading for a brand new course available from today. This is the “I have been given a telescope for Christmas and I don’t know what to do with it” course. Get up to speed with … Continue reading
Managed to get 8 x 30-minute subs last night with the 2 x 200mm Canons and the M26Cs, and I added this to earlier 19 x 15-minute data from the same rig using Registar. This is the result. I think … Continue reading
Another nice long 6-minute ISS pass tonight at 10:04 p.m. As you can see, there was thin high cloud about which thickened considerably – so no imaging for me tonight 🙁
